Wall-tie.



UNITED snares PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH H. JACKSON, OF IITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIG'NOR OF FORTY-NINE ONE-HUNDREDTHS TO KARL H. BUTLER. 0F PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

WALL-TIE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. e, 1908.

Application filed February 28, 1905. Serial No. 247,656.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnrn H. JAc'icsoN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Penns lvania, have in vented certain new and use ul Improvements in Vlall-ilies, of which the following is a specification. reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in wall ties, and has for its ob ect to provide a novel form of tie adapted to housed in connection with walls for irmly binding the parts or sections of the wall to 'ether.

Anot er object of this invention is to provide wall ties that can be interlocked with. one another, whereby they cannot become laterally separated from one another when built into a wall or abutment.

A further object of this invention is to provide wall ties that can be readilystamped' from sheet metal, said ties being so formed that a sheet of metal can be economically used and very little waste product left after my improved ties are stamped or sheared from a sheet.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention finally consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts which will be hereinafter more fully described, and thens ecific-ally )ointed out in the claims, and re erring to t ie drawing accon'ipanying this application, like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a wall illustrating my improved wall tics mounted therein, Fig. 2 is a similar view, Fig. 3 is a top planvicwof two of my improved ties locked together, Fig. 4 is a similar view of a modified form of tie, Figs. 5 and 6 are enlarged detail fragmentary views of ties illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4 of the drawings.

To put my invention into practice, I construct my improved wall ties of metal, and the ties are ada ted to be stamped or sheared from a sheet 0- metal. The ties may be of ahy desired length and are perferably made in oblong strips of con -enient lengths that can be readily embodi:- in aw'all. The ties are employed, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawin s, for binding parts or sections of the wall together, and by referring illustrated in Fig. 3 of the drawn-1 5s,

to Fig. 1 of the drawings, it will be seen that I have employed my improved. ties for bind.- ing bricks or building blocks together. Each. tie consists of a strip of metal I, the longitudinaledges of which are provided with 1r p lu rality of outwardly extending tuberous pro- 'ections'. In Figs?) and 5 0f the drawing, I

ave illustrated the preferred manner of constructing my improved ties and by referring to said figure, it will be observed that the tuberous-projections 2'upon each side of the tie are formed diametrically opposite each other. The formation of these tuberous projections provides recesses 3 having contracted neck portions 4, these neclportions being formed by the knobs or heads ol" the projections .2. When a plurality of ties are stampedor sheared from a sheet of metal, the formation ofthe projections Z are adepted to form the recesses 3, consequently said recesses being of a size and shaped corresponding to the rojections 2.

In Fig. 3 of t e drawings, I have illustrated two of my improved ties as being overla ed-and interlocked and by referr ng to sahfii ure, it will be seen that the pro tions 2 0 each plate snugly fit nf cesses 3 of the other plate, the in 5 of the rojections 2 being bra-ted by the heads or mobs of the projections carried by the adjoining tie. To interlock the ties necessary that one tie be moved into ongz ment with the other vertically, hei possible on account of the enlarged the projections to laterally slide the PM; tions in the recesses of its adjoini i tic. This coi'istruetion prevents any lat lon itudinalmovement of one tie in. respect to t 1e other when they have been interlocked, and this advantage will be readily apparent 2.2 to those skilled in the manner of using wall tics.

.In Fig. 4 of the drawings, I have illustrated a slight modification, wliiercin the projectioiis' 6 u on one side of the strip of metal are we formed ilianietrically opposite the recesses 7 upon the other side of the strip and vice versa. This construction tends to stren then the hodyportion of a strip of meta and I magn some instances employ a modified form o.- construction.

The essential; feature of my invention rcsides in the interlocking projections 0." each.-

strip and more particularly to the fact that it'will be impossible to separate two ties that have been interlocked in the manner hereinbefore described by any longitudinal or lateral i3 movement.

While I have herein illustrated the preferred manner of constructing my improved ties, it is obvious that various changes may be made in the details of construction without departing from the general spirit and sciwilalof the invention.

at I claim and desire to secure by Lette'rs Patent is:-

1; A wall tie consistin of a strip of metal having on its edge a plura ity of tuberous projections and intervening conformable inverted recesses;

2. A Wall tie'consisting of'a strip of metal having a plurality of headed pro ections on JOSEPH H. JACKSON. Witnesses:

H. C. EVERT, WILLIAM A. THOMPSON. 

